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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1936",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions (Lump Sum Payments to Widows) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-lump-sum-payments-to-widows-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe Police Pensions Regulations 1971 (which apply in relation to policemen who ceased to serve before 1st April 1972) provide for discretionary increases in police widows' pensions where the widow would have been entitled to widow’s benefit or a retirement pension under the Social Security Acts had her husband satisfied the contribution conditions therefor or where he died before 5th July 1948 (when the National Insurance Act 1946 (c. 67) came into operation).\nThese Regulations provide for the payment of a gratuity of £10 in the case of a policeman’s widow in receipt of such a discretionary increase in her police widow’s pension equivalent to the Christmas bonus for pensioners payable under Schedule 6 to the Social Security Act 1986 if she is not entitled to a payment by virtue of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1936/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:22.464796+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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